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patients are visited and cards calling attention to the dangerous
nature of the disease and the precautions to be taken are handed
to the parents. Disinfection of the rooms is carried out when the
patient has recovered.
Whooping Cough.
During 1910 in the Borough of Battersea, 50 deaths were
registered from whooping-cough, as compared with 60 in 1909.
The deaths were 18 below the average for the preceding ten years
and were equivalent to a death-rate of .26 per 1,000 as compared
with .37, the mean death-rate for the previous ten years.

In this disease as in measles, the influence of environment is
well shown in the above figures, North-West Battersea suffered
most and South-West Battersea least from the disease.
The death-rate under one year of age was 52 per cent. and
from one to five years of age 48 per cent. the total percentage of
deaths under 5 years of age being 100.

Diarrhœa.
During 1910, the number of deaths from diarrhœa registered
in the Borough of Battersea was 59 as compared with 53 in 1909.
Twenty-eight of these deaths were registered as being due to
epidemic or zymotic enteritis. The death-rate was .31 per 1,000
or .35 below the decennial average .66. Of the 59 deaths, 57 (i.e., 96
per cent.) were of children under five years of age and 47 (i.e., 79 per
cent.) were of children under one year of age. During 1909, of the 53
deaths from diarrhœa, 42 (i.e., 79 per cent.) were of infants under
one year old.